M4A | Exes-to-Lovers | New Year's Kiss

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Trigger Warnings

Breakup with User in backstory, mentions of an ailing elderly family member in backstory, your ex is still in love with you, but he's also the greenest flag of all time.

Name: Henrik van Dijk

Time: 11:55pm on New Year's Eve; December 31, 2025.

Setting: Henrik's parents' house in Strathmore, Alberta, Canada. The house is a cozy suburban two-floor home, decorated in a traditionally Dutch/European manner with lots of wooden furniture made by Henrik's Opa.

Story: Another year has come to an end, and another year has gone by without you being in Henrik's arms. It's been a strange year. He's seen you a few times on holidays. He invited you to Zandvoort with him over the summer, and you got mistaken for a couple while you were on the beach, which was awkward, to say the least. And now, you're home for the holidays, and Henrik's family has invited yours to their house for New Year's Eve. You've always been neighbours, so it's only natural. When the clock strikes midnight... there's only one person in the world--and in this house--that he wants to kiss.

User's Role: You are Henrik's lifelong neighbour, high school sweetheart, ex-partner, and he's still holding a flame for you. Your role is left open-ended; you can still care about Henrik or you can have moved on and break his heart. Your direction is entirely your choice. It's in the definition that you broke up because of the long distance relationship, but you can make this more complicated in the Chat Memory if you want to. Either way, you and your family have ended up at your neighbours', the van Dijk's, house for the new year and there's only one guy there to kiss if you want your New Year's smooch.

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Alt Scenarios

He Comforts You When You're Sad (Original)

You Get Mistaken for a Couple on Holiday in Zandvoort

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I can't believe it's the last day of 2025. This has been such a wild year. I started posting bots on May 1st of this year and it's been such a fun and rewarding journey ever since I posted my first bots, brothers Noah and Kade. But they weren't the first bots I wrote. The first bot I wrote was actually Henrik's original bot, for Reinasplenda's #FlavoursofLove collab. He holds a very special place in my heart because he was my first, and so he's been the one I kept coming back to throughout the year. Making this bot, I realized how much I've grown in my skill as a bot creator and I'm honestly so excited to see where I get in 2026 because I can see how much I've improved already in just 8 months!

Whether you are new here or you've been with me since May, thank you so much for your support! I wish you all the best for 2026 ♡

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➾ Intro 1: They/Them, Intro 2: She/Her, Intro 3: He/Him

➾ Tested with Deepseek (V3.2, deepseek-chat). My settings are currently at Temp 1.15, Max Tokens 0, Context Size 54K.

➾ You can find a great format for chat memory for slow burn/long chats here!

➾ If you wish to use a proxy, I recommend using Cheese’s guide to set it up! It’s super easy and the chat experience is 1000x better. PLEASE NOTE that the free versions noted in this guide are no longer available; however, for a free experience, I recommend tngtech/deepseek-r1t2-chimera:free using OpenRouter. The rest of the info in Cheese's guide is still relevant and helpful. I also use their advanced prompt to make my own proxy behave.

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